Cuff-holder.



No. 662,3!4. Patented Nov. 20,1900. E. B. SHEDD.

CUFF HOLDER.

(Application filed may 4, 1900.

No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,314, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed May 4:, 1900- Serial No. 15,499. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LEPHRAIM CUTLER SHEDD,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Quit-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for holding cuifs to shirt-sleeves, and the object is to provide'a cuff-holder of simple construction that while substantially rigid as to lengthwise movement may be readily turned axially and laterally at its portion adjacent to the sleeve-engaging clip, thus facilitating the attaching of the sleeve, especially when there are wrinkles in the same with which it is usually difficult to engage the edges of the ordinary clip.

I will describe acui'TT-holder embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a cuffholder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a section on the line a: a: of Fig. 2.

The cuff-holder comprises a tang consisting of two divergent members 12, which terminate in hook portions 3, adapted to engage in the buttonhole of acuff. From these hook portions a loop l is carried forward to engage the cuff indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 2. One member of the tang, here shown as the member 2, is turned spirally, as at 5, the spirals gradually decreasing in diameter from the center toward the ends, and upon this spiral a spring-clip 6 is attached. It will be noted that the members 1 2 of the shank portion are substantially rigid and that the coil 5 will permit of a very little lengthwise movement, thus holding the cufi in its ad justed place on the shirt-sleeve. This coil 5, however, will permit an axial turning of the clip 6 and also a slight lateral movement thereof, so that it may be readily engaged with a shirt-sleeve at the edge of the opening. The members 1 and 2 and the coil 5 form the body portion of the device.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A cuff-holder, consisting of a strip of metal bent to form a body portion having divergent members terminating in hooks, and a spirally-coiled portion to which a clip is attached, substantially as specified.

2. A cuff-holder, comprising a body portion having divergent members terminating in hook portionsi'or engaging a cuff, one of said members being turned spirally, the coils of the spiral gradually decreasing in diameter from the center outward, and a clip secured to the end of the spiral, substantially as specified.

3. A cuff-holder, comprising a body portion of wire, a part of said body portion being rigid as to lengthwise movement and the other part of said body portion having a coil gradually increasing in diameter from its ends toward its center and adapted to turn axially and to flex laterally, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EPHRAIM CUTLER SHEDD. Witnesses: J. H. STEWART, JAMES R. VINCENT; 

